“All happy families are alike, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way,” the classic asserted. But there are no rules without exceptions, proof of this are the heroes of this book. Nicholas and Helena Roerich, Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, Dmitry Merezhkovsky and Zinaida Gippius, Andrei Sakharova Elena Bonner, Mikhail and Raisa Gorbachev, Sophia Loren and Carlo Ponti - all these extraordinary personalities are similar in one thing: they were able to recognize their “soul mate” ", learned to love and live happily together. This book is not a set of recipes that ensure success in your personal life, but the stories told will help you understand how to find your love, what exactly is the happiness of being together and why it is not at all scary to grow old next to a person, who, following Sakharov, wants to say: “You are me! Life goes on. We are together.”